Voting for Plugin Madness, Torque’s annual bracket-style competition, is officially kicking off this week. Out of all the plugins that were nominated, 64 of the top contenders were selected for the four initial categories: Marketing, Optimization, Performance, and eCommerce. Now Continue reading Voting is Open for Plugin Madness!
What do you get when you put a handful of outspoken WordPress developers, agencies, product owners, and community advocates on a video call with both the Lead Architect and the Product Owner of the entire Gutenberg project? Hopefully progress. Matt Continue reading Gutenberg’s Project Leadership Sits Down with New Outreach Team to Discuss Problems with the Site Editor
As Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg teased in a January blog post, our team at WordPress.com is working hard to enhance our developer experience. Improving what you see in your dashboard when you log into WordPress.com is one of our biggest Continue reading Welcome to a More Powerful WP-Admin Experience
WordPress is a powerful content management system (CMS) complete with a mammoth ecosystem of themes and plugins. This gives you an almost unlimited number of ways to expand your site’s functionality. However, “almost” is the keyword here. For those times Continue reading Harnessing third-party APIs: advanced WordPress strategies on Kinsta
WordCamp Asia 2024 is just a few days away—starting on March 7 in Taipei, Taiwan. This unique three-day summit will feature a distinguished lineup of speakers, numerous networking opportunities, and a closing Q&A experience with WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg. The Continue reading WordCamp Asia 2024: Q&A with Matt Mullenweg
Get your brackets set and pick your favorites to win it all—Plugin Madness 2024 is now in full swing! While the last few weeks were all about nominating the best WordPress plugins, it’s now time to shift focus as the Continue reading Voting is Now Open for Plugin Madness 2024!
SSL certificates are the backbone of a secure internet and are essential for any website owner, including those running sites on WordPress. Beyond security, SSL has become a significant factor in search engine optimization (SEO), influencing a site’s visibility and Continue reading How to Add an SSL Certificate to a WordPress Website
Are you trying to disable WordPress plugins on your site? If this is because you are facing an error, and you suspect they may be the cause, then you likely have no access to your admin panel at this point. Continue reading How To Disable WordPress Plugins Using FTP
When it comes to online sales, you may be wondering what is CRO (conversion rate optimization)? Put simply, conversion rate optimization is a metric and strategy ensuring that your visitors take the actions you desire, be it making a purchase, Continue reading What Is Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO)?
Explore the impact you can make on WordPress without coding in this WordPress Briefing episode hosted by Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy. She’ll guide you through diverse non-coding contributions suitable for all skill levels, including content translation, photo submissions, event Continue reading WP Briefing: Episode 74: Kickstart (Or Level-Up) Your Contributor Journey
Are you looking for a reliable WordPress security plugin? WordPress is one of the most popular Content Management Systems (CMSs) today with nearly half of the websites we have today running on it. As a result, there are many potential Continue reading Solid Security (iThemes Security) Review 2024: Is This The Best Security Plugin?
Our customers provide us with the ability to help make WordPress plugins more secure. Mostly, with plugins they use, but to a lesser extent other plugins. That work often goes unmentioned. So we are highlighting that to help to better Continue reading How Our Customers Helped Make WordPress Plugins More Secure, Week of March 1
In this last episode about the Kerala WPPhotos Festival I talk not only about the project, but also where this project is leading us. Next Gen events are a breath of fresh air for those of us who need something Continue reading WordPress Photo Festival 2024, A Five Part Retrospective, Part 5, What We Learned, Where We’re Going
Seven months ago I registered for & scheduled a trip to Phoenix Arizona for a non-WordPress-related event! Crazy, right? As luck would have it, four months later, WordCamp Phoenix had announced that their event would be for that same weekend Continue reading Reflecting on WordCamp Phoenix 2024: Struggles, Successes, and the Road Ahead
Katie Keith, CEO of Barn2, announced that Kestrel has acquired seven plugins from her company for an undisclosed amount. She had tweeted about her plans to sell the plugins back in January to focus on the more profitable plugins. This Continue reading Acquisition Alert: Kestrel Acquires Seven Barn2 Plugins
SocGholish malware, otherwise known as “fake browser updates”, is one of the most common types of malware infections that we see on hacked websites. This long-standing malware campaign leverages a JavaScript malware framework that has been in use since at Continue reading New Wave of SocGholish Infections Impersonates WordPress Plugins
As the block editor continues to evolve its content management capabilities, the lack of support for custom fields has been one of the key roadblocks for users and developers. While custom fields in WordPress are still widely used, in the Continue reading The Block Bindings API Brings Dynamic Data to Blocks
In the WordPress ecosystem, adopting a freemium model is a prevalent method for promoting and monetizing commercial plugins. This approach entails releasing a basic version of the plugin for free—usually through the WordPress plugin directory—and offering enhanced features through a Continue reading Architecting a WordPress plugin to support extensions
Solid Backups 9.1.9 is available for download. This release includes a few fixes: A fix replacing a link in the Solid Backups page, in the Storage box where it shows how much is in use, says “Need More Storage?” which Continue reading Solid Backups Maintenance Release 9.1.9
In a previous article, we explored ribbon shapes and different ways to approach them using clever combinations of CSS gradients and clip-path(). This time, I’d like to explore another shape, one that you’ve likely had to tackle at least once Continue reading Modern CSS Tooltips And Speech Bubbles (Part 1)